Random encounters are side missions you can take from NPCs by raising your reputation with them. There are lots of these and they are available on several maps. Miracle Encounters are when an NPC with a red lantern over their head approaches you and gives you a gift, offers you a quest, or offers to sell you something.

How do I do Random Encounters?

Press L. Click the Recommended tab. Some of the missions will be titled 'Gratitude or Resentment'. These are random encounter quests. You must go to the NPC with the quest and raise your reputation (by gifting them things, or preforming activities they like nearby). They will then offer you the quest, which will reward random items upon completion. Typical rewards from a random encounter are crafting books, herbs, or pills.

You can also do Random Encounter quests that start with an item (like the Common Bracelet). These items usually, but not always, have co-ordinates or mention names for who should receive the item to start the quest.

How do I do Miracle Encounters?

These are harder. You will be approached, often mid combat, by an NPC with a red lantern over his head. You have 30 seconds to talk to the NPC. So far GTC has identified three types of miracle encounter:

* Gifting - the NPC will give you something. When you are gifted something in a miracle encounter it will be UNBOUND, meaning you can sell or trade it.* Selling - the NPC will offer to sell you something, perhaps a flying skill, for varying amounts of unbound liang. Note that the item will be BOUND - so if you get the option to purchase goosestep, be aware that only you can read it.* Quest - the NPC will offer you a quest. The reward will be a higher level encounter box that contains a life skill item like a loom, or a martial box that contains skills. These rewards appear to be UNBOUND and can be sold or traded.

Swamp, thanks for this. Have a few quesitons (and sorrying for playing necromancer on this post, just really gotten into random & miracle encounters recently.)

[*] Do you know what the colors in the Jianghu Travels tab for random encounters means? I originally thought it had to do with how much rep you got for the tasks, but I've gotten sometimes higher rep from grey tasks than green tasks, and other times vice versa.

[*] It would appear, once I hit certain rep milestones, old Random Encounters ceased appearing. I can still do them by remembering where the NPC was, but interesting they are removed. Is it in fact tied to rep what appears and doesn't?

[*] Looks like the meditation/standing trick has a cap and after that moves at a snail's pace. Can't prove this yet, but found it odd that new NPCs, affinity grows quickly doing a specific task, but milking it for hours yields little results... seems to really force you to check in with the NPC once a day to build a relationship beyond green.

[*] Miracle Encounter Timers. I am almost certain I've missed one or two and curious if it is possible that they reset if you missed them, or if once you miss them that is it? I know I've gone on some potty breaks... just hope there is a chance for them to be retriggered.

Swamp, thanks for this. Have a few quesitons (and sorrying for playing necromancer on this post, just really gotten into random & miracle encounters recently.)

[*] Do you know what the colors in the Jianghu Travels tab for random encounters means? I originally thought it had to do with how much rep you got for the tasks, but I've gotten sometimes higher rep from grey tasks than green tasks, and other times vice versa.

This is a good question. My guess is that grey tasks are not immediately acceptable, in other words you need to raise your rep with the NPC to actually start them, while green quests are ready to go as soon as you talk to the NPC.

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[*] It would appear, once I hit certain rep milestones, old Random Encounters ceased appearing. I can still do them by remembering where the NPC was, but interesting they are removed. Is it in fact tied to rep what appears and doesn't?

I think this is actually tied to completion since it affects non Love/Hate quests too. Once you do the quest, it seems to remove itself from your recommended tasks although you can still repeat it.

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[*] Looks like the meditation/standing trick has a cap and after that moves at a snail's pace. Can't prove this yet, but found it odd that new NPCs, affinity grows quickly doing a specific task, but milking it for hours yields to little results... seems to really force you to check in with the NPC once a day to build a relationship beyond green.

This is true and details are scarce on how this works over the long term, as well as which NPCs it is actually worth raising rep with... To quickly raise rep for questing I've found that it is much faster to give stacks of pills (Life extending, jackdaw, food) than to meditate. But some NPCs need more rep than others to start a quest.

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[*] Miracle Encounter Timers. I am almost certain I've missed one or two and curious if it is possible that they reset if you missed them, or if once you miss them that is it? I know I've gone on some potty breaks... just hope there is a chance for them to be retriggered.

From what I've heard you have a chance to get them again. The Miracle Encounters are tied to map locations as well as unknown amounts of rep/gossip status. So if you missed a miracle in Wudang, presumably you can get it again in Wudang at a later (random) time.

Swamp, thanks for this. Have a few quesitons (and sorrying for playing necromancer on this post, just really gotten into random & miracle encounters recently.)

[*] Do you know what the colors in the Jianghu Travels tab for random encounters means? I originally thought it had to do with how much rep you got for the tasks, but I've gotten sometimes higher rep from grey tasks than green tasks, and other times vice versa.

This is a good question. My guess is that grey tasks are not immediately acceptable, in other words you need to raise your rep with the NPC to actually start them, while green quests are ready to go as soon as you talk to the NPC.

I think the colours indicate the quest difficulty. The green ones should have harder tasks than the grey ones. (I could be wrong, I've only done 4 of those random encounters so far)

I think the colours indicate the quest difficulty. The green ones should have harder tasks than the grey ones. (I could be wrong, I've only done 4 of those random encounters so far)

That would make sense. Now I feel like I am going senile as I was sure there were random quests listed I didn't do that no longer appear. (Again I've had some 2 am sessions where I was sleep walking through a lot of them, so may have done them and not realized.)

[*] Looks like the meditation/standing trick has a cap and after that moves at a snail's pace. Can't prove this yet, but found it odd that new NPCs, affinity grows quickly doing a specific task, but milking it for hours yields little results... seems to really force you to check in with the NPC once a day to build a relationship beyond green.

[*] Miracle Encounter Timers. I am almost certain I've missed one or two and curious if it is possible that they reset if you missed them, or if once you miss them that is it? I know I've gone on some potty breaks... just hope there is a chance for them to be retriggered.

meditation is easy and not challenging at all, actually its always slow, only on npc who give poor reward will go fast

for best miracle You have 5 chances, so have to always try hard, depends from miracle they reset at 24/48/72h or when 200ppl do it

I think the colours indicate the quest difficulty. The green ones should have harder tasks than the grey ones. (I could be wrong, I've only done 4 of those random encounters so far)

I'm not sure this is actually the case. It's hard to test since the quests leave your log as soon as you do them, but I'm still leaning towards green indicating a quest you can do right away. So far I have not encountered any difficult random encounter quests.

I think the colours indicate the quest difficulty. The green ones should have harder tasks than the grey ones. (I could be wrong, I've only done 4 of those random encounters so far)

I'm not sure this is actually the case. It's hard to test since the quests leave your log as soon as you do them, but I'm still leaning towards green indicating a quest you can do right away. So far I have not encountered any difficult random encounter quests.

Also, not sure what was included in the last patch (given Snail said Randoms/Miracles were working since CB2 launch in December) but since April 10th, all of a sudden NPCs with glowing red bulbs have been chasing me down all over the darn place... even in cities I don't frequent often. Over the past week alone I got a loom I was able to sell for 21D after some fierce betting among the top tailors, 3 objects with coordinates, 2 Arhat Fist ruined books from random shaolin monks and a few random life profession scrolls.

The odd thing is I have not done anything different from my daily activities since December, if anything my rep is over 250k and around 18 on Inner 3 for Shaolin.

In particular trying to figure out what I did, or who I befriended to get those Arhat Fist ruined book offerings, and I wish I took better notes of who I spoke to, when and for how long. Sure I can go into the Jianghu interface and see the relationships I built, but doesn't really paint a full picture.

I am at a loss, but a few of the "mriacle event" triggers I found on one of the Chinese AoW fan websites I may try again. (Tried in december, and didn't seem to be able to trigger anything, with all the randoms hunting me since the 10th, wondering if it is worth trying again.)

I am really confused by random encounter / miracle too... the best I have found is the occasional NPC who will give you a "random reward" for completing their task. Could we start a list somewhere of the best people to do random encounters for?

i found 2 red latterns this week, 1 in yanyu village which gave me a broken silver sword, and another in Sozhou which gave me a love letter. Neither items do anything, am I suppose to find an npc and gift those items to them or are they junk?

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